Oscar Goodman Quotes (20 Quotes)

It's just as important as having a major league baseball team or an academic medical center, ... It creates a sense of sophistication in the community.

Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

There's not enough time to fulfill the NBA requirement, ... And I wouldn't ask them (the sports books) to, either.

I think we're at the crossroads -- whether we want to be the entertainment capital of the world or a great American city. Our economy is good. Things are so wonderful in Las Vegas and it's time to move to the next level.

I'm dead serious, ... Some of these (children) don't learn. You have got to teach them a lesson, and this is coming from a criminal defense lawyer.

This is the heart and soul of Las Vegas. This is what our future is all about.

When we were growing up in Philadelphia, she would drop us off at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends, ... I was enamored of the armor collection of knights and weapons.

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

Mayor Goodman says the development is not a set back. No set back at all. That's the important thing here. ... They felt in the particular market that we have here with the costs of labor going up, with the cost of materials going up that they couldn't make that commitment so I said let's call it a day.

I want to find out if the monies are going to be co-mingled. I was promised they would not be. That the quarter cent would be separate and that would be for 1,000 police officers and equipment on the street.

In today's terms this is very affordable, ... It's great that the people living here can walk out of their homes, have a martini and then go to the entertainment district.

A place like Las Vegas, which is the greatest city in the world, will not allow anyone to be prejudiced, biased, or hateful.

It's so unfair because the centennial committee wanted to present this very special event available to everybody free of charge,

You get a couple of bums who take advantage of the situation, and what starts off as a very nice gesture ... turns into a sleazy methodology of trying to make a buck from it,

There could be no better time or place for this Welcome Home party than in Las Vegas during our 2005 Centennial celebration, ... Las Vegas is proud of our servicemen and women and equally proud of our veterans. We anticipate a 2005 Veterans Day parade and air show that will go down in the history books.

It's the time once again when we're being called upon to express our generosity to our brothers and sisters who have been affected by Katrina.

just an exhibition. They (the sports books) don't make any money off that.

We are trying to educate people how important it is not to use your car all the time. There's different ways to get to work. We have trails here and one of the ways to get to work, of course, is on these bicycles.

Maybe I can get some straw men out here and we can make a buck,